Yrjö

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Male Name

Usage

Finnish
Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

Finnish younger form of Yria

Related Names

See Yrian

Grammar

- Finnish
Nominative:	Yrjö
Genitive:	Yrjön
Partitive:	Yrjöä

- Swedish
Nominative:	Yrjö
Genitive:	Yrjös

Name Day

Finland

23 April

Further Information

Pronunciation

• Finnish: [ˈyrjø]

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1920-1949
  • 1930-1949

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Östsverige
  • Dalarna
  • Nordsverige

Namesakes

• Yrjö Väisälä (6 September 1891 – 21 July 1971), Finnish astronomer and physicist

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 332 people were named Yrjö (percentage of first or only given name: 71 %)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Finland		n.a.	31585	0	0	n.a.	31585
Sweden		137	368	0	0	137	368
Denmark		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	n.a.
Norway		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	n.a.
Iceland		0	1	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Yrjö.